| Meeting On Southern Soil | ||||
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| Studio album by Norman Blake and Peter Ostroushko | ||||
| Released | February 12, 2002 | |||
| Recorded | December 8 - 10, 2000 | |||
| Genre | Americana, folk | |||
| Label | Red House | |||
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Meeting on Southern Soil is an album by Norman Blake and Peter Ostroushko, released in 2002.
Norman Blake is a traditional American stringed instrument artist and songwriter.
Peter Ostroushko is an American violinist and mandolinist.
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Writing for Allmusic, the music critic Chris Nickson wrote of the album, "Albums like this renew the roots of American music, bringing new blood (tunes and songs) into what is really a flowing river of history. To hear these two together is a sheer joy and a triumph of musical skill and love." [1]
Chris Nickson is a British writer, novelist, music journalist, and biographer.
All songs Traditional unless otherwise noted.
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.
A mandolin is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick". It commonly has four courses of doubled metal strings tuned in unison, although five and six course versions also exist. The courses are normally tuned in a succession of perfect fifths. It is the soprano member of a family that includes the mandola, octave mandolin, mandocello and mandobass.
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